08 IEW Homework: Researched Paragraphs // Due the week of Oct. 28, 2014

Hi Everyone!

This week in class, we went over how to write a paragraph that combines information from three different sources!

You all have your three Humpback Whale mini-books with each of the paragraphs labeled. From these, (in class) we picked the topic of "Migration" and looked at—only—the paragraphs from each of the mini-books that talk about migration of whales. We made an outline that included the topic sentence, the concluding sentence (clincher), and then 5 pieces of information in the middle:

1. Topic Sentence: Migration of Humpback Whales
1. Whales feed in cold water; birth in warm water (I'm using more words for my explanation; try to use as few as possible)
2. Whales spend 2 mo traveling to each place
3. etc
4. etc
5. etc
2. Clincher Sentence: Travel of Humpback Whales

Then, we talked about taking that outline and putting it into our own words into a paragraph, like:

              Did you know that humpback whales migrate around the world every year? They must do so because they catch and eat food in cold water, but they need waters to give birth and raise their babies. It takes around two months for whales to swim from their warm-water birthing grounds to their cold-water hunting grounds, and vice versa. etc, etc, etc…

Then, in class with a partner, you all created a paragraph outline using another whale topic (like "Family" or "Body Structure").

THURSDAY/FRIDAY HOMEWORK: Your homework is to bring in 2 finished paragraphs, written in your own words, based on the outline you did in class with a partner, and one extra you'll do at home by yourself. (DO NOT do one on "Migration" as we already did this in class)

• Criteria—Your paragraph must:
• Have facts/information from at least 2 different source paragraphs
• Be double spaced
• Have a header in the top right corner:
• Your name
• My name
• Class name
• Date
• Have all six dress-ups

WEDNESDAY HOMEWORK: Your homework is to bring in 1 finished paragraph, written in your own words, based on an outline you'll do at home by yourself. (DO NOT do one on "Migration" as we already did this in class)

• Criteria—Your paragraph must:
• Have facts/information from at least 2 different source paragraphs
• Be double spaced
• Have a header in the top right corner:
• Your name
• My name
• Class name
• Date
• Have all six dress-ups